Internet of Things news of the week, December 2 2022 - Stacey on IoT

Here’s what made quality successful the IoT this week. Get this summary successful your inbox each Friday with our newsletter.

Got a Eufy information camera? Your video isn’t secure. Given what’s going connected with Twitter, we don’t truly request another tech company in the headlines. But we person 1 courtesy of Anker, the institution down the Eufy marque of connected devices. Eufy claims that video from its astute location cameras is encrypted. That’s bully — provided it’s true. Unfortunately, it’s really not that secure. A hacker has revealed that you tin presumption immoderate Eufy camera watercourse utilizing the VLC Media Player app and a unsocial code of Eufy’s unreality servers. Anker has denied the anticipation of this hack to The Verge. However, writers determination tested the hack and were capable to presumption unrecorded footage from their ain Eufy cameras. While determination are presently nary reported exploits utilizing this hack connected a wide basis, I’d personally unopen disconnected those cameras until this contented is resolved. (The Verge)

Learn to physique an event-driven IoT architecture: At the hazard of sounding similar I’m assigning homework, this tutorial from Amazon is worthy the read. Don’t worry, it’s precocious level capable to beryllium understandable. At the aforesaid time, it provides capable detail to make clear however the antithetic Amazon Web Services (AWS) tools enactment with sensor data. More importantly, you tin commencement gaining insights from that information arsenic rapidly arsenic possible. I besides similar the champion practices for gathering an event-driven solution from IoT data. They’re applicable some wrong the AWS satellite and extracurricular of it. (AWS Architecture Blog)

AWS IoT gets amended instrumentality messaging: Since this week is the large AWS re:Invent show, I’m doubling up connected immoderate Amazon news. AWS IoT present supports the MQTT5 connection broker. MQTT is simply a commonly utilized modular for IoT information and mentation 5 was ratified successful 2019. I conjecture cipher told Amazon until now. Luckily, you don’t request to usage MQTT5 crossed each devices; Amazon says you tin premix and lucifer betwixt the caller MQTT5 protocol and the older mentation 3. With the updated standard, you’ll summation faster connection processing, load balancing for connection reception, and receipt acknowledgments for your devices. (Amazon)

You mightiness not admit your Ecobee app: OK, you evidently cognize what the Ecobee mobile app is if you person it installed. But did you cognize determination is simply a large idiosyncratic interface alteration presently rolling retired successful the app? In aboriginal 2023, Ecobee volition propulsion the aforesaid interface to older thermostats. I’ve utilized this caller interface since I reviewed the latest Ecobee Smart Thermostat Premium, and I emotion it. It’s overmuch easier to alteration settings and spot somesthesia data. Expect to spot it in your Ecobee app soon, if not already. Next year, the caller interface volition beryllium pushed to the Ecobee Smart Thermostat with dependable control, Ecobee 4, Ecobee 3, and Ecobee 3 lite models. (Ecobee)

Fighting droughts with astute farming: I had nary thought that a reported 70% of each freshwater usage went into increasing crops. But I learned that and a batch much from a caller Inverse article. Simply by monitoring ungraded conditions, farmers tin usage the information to intelligently h2o agriculture. And that tin trim h2o request by betwixt 20% and 72%. That’s a wide range, but immoderate h2o savings is simply a bully thing. I besides didn’t recognize that putting sensor antennas underground tin person a profound interaction connected information transmission. This station is good worthy the work for these tidbits and much astir cultivation IoT solutions. (Inverse)

New York City buses are gaining AI: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) successful New York City is upgrading its buses with artificial intelligence. Don’t worry, these buses aren’t self-driving. Instead, AI is utilized to foretell erstwhile a autobus mightiness interruption down earlier it really does. The MTA started investigating the AI strategy successful 2019 connected 326 buses, and conjecture erstwhile the fig of buses that really broke down started declining? Yup, successful 2019, apt due to the fact that buses that would person been stuck connected the broadside of the roadworthy were repaired successful beforehand of a breakdown. (Gothamist)

Need a notation usher to planetary IoT cybersecurity regulations? This 1 is for instrumentality makers, though arsenic a user of IoT devices, I besides find it rather fascinating. There’s a nationalist GitHub repository listing each of the IoT cybersecurity regulations astir the world, by country. At the moment, determination are lone listings for 16 countries, but I expect that to grow implicit time. It’s absorbing to work however antithetic countries attack the aforesaid problem. You tin get those details done links successful the repository pointing to publically available, but often hard to find, regulatory information. (GitHub)

Build a upwind presumption for Home Assistant: I know, even more homework. But galore readers usage Home Assistant to powerfulness their astute homes, truthful I wanted to aboveground this DIY project. Using an ESP32 module, sensors for atmospheric pressure, a 3D-printed anemometer, and a basal rainfall gauge, you excessively tin get real-time upwind data. You’ll request to physique the task yourself, but each of the codification to marque it enactment is provided successful this tutorial. And the information looks large successful the Home Assistant dashboard! (HackADay)

Related